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Originally Posted by proximity
ok poker fans we are back at the amazing bally's in frigid atlantic city!!
when we last left off i lost with KK and JJ in back to back hands and there was a riot in the wild west section of the casino.
with a fraternity/bachelor party group on my (mr big shot diamond member  ) floor i didn't expect to get much sleep but surprisingly i never heard a peep out of them.
instead at 5:00 am i am awoken by a peppermint patty sounding girl in the room next door telling her life story to some hapless chump on her cell phone.
peppermint patty doesn't want to be in a relationship with charlie brown. instead she wants to travel for work and have sex with lots of other guys is the cliffs notes. 
when i hear this i think about getting up and knocking on her door but with the way i'm running in this godforsaken city she'd probably be bigger and uglier than the average lineman on the colts.
instead i drift back to sleep for a few hours before heading downstairs for a nice breakfast at johnny rockets.
on the way back to the room i stop at the check in counter and surprise, surprise; bally's CAN take the charge off my credit card and apply my reward credits!!
so the morning's going well and my play now is to sleep a few more hours before heading down to the poker room to avenge last night's loss to those high hand chasing donkeys.
at 9:00 though peppermint patty gets another call.
apparently charlie brown's abandoned her here in atlantic city and she needs a ride back to.... newark??
sigh....  |
ok poker fans, we're back at
bally's where i make my way down to the card room for a long session of stimulating 246 limit play.
i start out the contest raising with JJ but picking right up where we left off just last night my jacks are AGAIN beaten by a rivered gutshot.
certainly i'm a jinxed player but i vow to stay in the game and try to do my best and enjoy the day. eventually i rally to get back ahead but my lead is short lived as i lose with two sets in five minutes.
with AA in the small blind i three bet after an older woman raises from middle position. i beat her hand but another player between us (who cold called her raise with A4 off) gets three fours to beat me.
with T9 in the big blind i see a flop of A94 which checks to the button. i (correctly) sense weakness and call but probably should've raised. instead i suddenly lead out when a second four hits the turn. i'm a little worried when the CUTOFF calls this bet...... but i'm still beating his pocket fives.... UNTIL A FIVE COMES ON THE RIVER.
the game is very frustrating to me because i often play 10+ hour sessions and NEVER see these hands hit after i fold them. when i fold 64 though i scold myself when a flop of 642 comes on the board and gets a bet, a raise, and several calls from the field.
another player however, who played Q2 off, hangs in to see a queen on the turn and another two on the river for good measure and i pat myself on the back for yet another good fold.
my big blind comes around but there's an open seat on my right. the player on my left suddenly gets up and moves to this seat, so i'm still under the gun and look down at AA.
flop: 876
big blind: T9
thirty minutes later i again have AA against the very same player who is in with 83.
flop: J 8 2
turn: 2
river: 8.
searching the pinelands for the jersey devil, giving peppermint patty a ride back to newark, or playing 246 limit hold em at bally's?
i'm not sure which of those options is the best way to spend a saturday.... but i'm convinced that playing 246 is the worst.
thank you for reading.
game -82 (246)
year -1115 (22-22)
promo 0 (160)
